Following creates IDs on a headline.
M-x org-id-get-create RET
Then, the following creates a link to IDs
C-c l on the headline
C-c C-l at the place where link is to be inserted
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If all you need is a stable link, you can go with CUSTOM_ID property for
links. Just type in whatever string you want. IDs are machine created
but CUSTOM_IDs are man made ones.
James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes:
> At Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:58:27 -0400,
> Nick Dokos wrote:
>> > I'm still really confused how the ID options work. Last night, I
>> > could not get org to generate a link without creating an ID (using the
>> > default value of org-link-to-org-use-id). Now, I tried to verify what
>> > happens with ID-style links, so I customized org-link-to-org-use-id to
>> > be 't' -- and org now refuses to generate the ID. ??? This is even
>> > after saving the custom setting, quitting and relaunching emacs. It
>> > simply is not making the link according to the variable. (The link
>> > target is an org file.)
>>
>> C-h v org-link-to-org-use-id RET should help in alleviating (at least
>> some of) the confusion. Note the default value: you probably want to set
>> it to create-if-interactive-and-no-custom-id.
>
> OK, but will this create the IDs or not? Today, I had wanted to enable
> the IDs in order to provide a scenario where they don't work. For
> normal use, I *don't* want the IDs because I found they don't persist
> through Emacs sessions.
>
> "create-if-interactive" -- I'm assuming C-c l is interactive --
> "-and-no-custom-id" -- these would be on headlines where there is no
> existing ID. So it *would* create an ID, right? Not what I ultimately
> want.
>
> hjh
>
>
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